Can an astronomer explain to me, how is it that we can see andromeda so clearly? It looks like a whole in space, can you see it “move” if you were to record it?
NUNG457 on
Seems like everyone here is forgetting about focal length.
disfordonkus on
I’d expect reflected light off the snow to saturate an exposure way before andromeda. Unless this is a bunch of separate photos stitched together.
beautiful shot. But just to keep expectations realistic andromeda doesnt actually look like its about to invade the mountain still an incredible composite though
JadedStation8637 on
Who summoned Astel?
wrxninja on
Even if it’s real, it’s a composite. In a Bortle 1 or 2 skies, you can see Andromeda fairly easily with a naked eye but no way you’ll have crystal clear mountain range with Andromeda this big both in focus let alone the size ratio as mentioned would be way off you won’t even see the mountain in the foreground to begin with.
I took this when I first started doing Astrophotography with Canon 6D MKI with 17mm lens in Lincoln NH. You can see Andromeda above the tree on the right. Perseids meteor I believe streaking across. I didn’t know at the time I had Andromeda was in frame.
when you realize the only thing stopping you from seeing it with your bare eyes, tho its furher away than any human could travel in multiple lifespans is your theoretical time looking at the sky…
thats when you stop looking up shit on reddit, and go out, buy groceries, cook awesome food and enjoy some oldschool runescape, because everything you do in life is fucking irrelevant in the grand scheme of atoms 🤣
Background-Toe-3495 on
perspective and focal length totally distort size comparison
HearYourTune on
Yes, the Andromeda Galaxy can be seen with the unaided eye under the right conditions,
appearing as **a faint smudge** of light in the night sky.
transformerslover2_0 on
Wow
Yumafrog on
They say we’ll collide with it in like a billion years, but that MF is getting big, it looks to me like we have bout 6 months
lothcent on
So we got the galaxy name but what is the mountains name?
AlvaGinslack on
It’s so beautiful….
I like to imagine weird alien taking pictures like this but of the milky-way.
marozsas on
What is the cloud-like object between the peak and Andromeda ? I suppose it is not the Magellan clouds…
FatReverend on
Bullshit.
Used-Bag6311 on
Have y’all seen Andromeda in the sky before? It’s… not that big. lmao
EDIT: apparently it IS that big, goddamn. I guess I must’ve been looking at the wrong thing lol. Had no idea it was that close.
Either way it’s a neat composition of photos layered on top of each other, very cool.
Ashrun_Zeda on
Is a heavily edited picture.
One can say it’s technically true, since it uses legit photography techniques to get to this.
But it’s totally impossible to view a scene like this with the naked eye.
Whale222 on
Oh lawd, she’s coming.
Hollayo on
It’s not AI, just heavily edited
OrrinW01 on
This is technically real but to get that amount of light you need at least an hour of exposures and th earth would have moved too much to get the mountain in view for more than the first few exposures. This person probably took one photo of andromeda over the mountain where the galaxy was extremely dim and extremely far away and then overlaid their previously stacked photo to get the effect. For reference here is my photo I took last year. 1.5 hours of exposures. The color is off but you get the gist.
“From the galaxy of Andromeda, I puzzle 🥷’s like crop circles and other unexplained phenomena.”
mr_f4hrenh3it on
Nothing pains me more than clicking on these comment sections and proceeding to read countless people who have no fucking clue about astrophotography act confidently wrong like they have authority over the subject when they have *no clue what they are talking about*.
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I do not believe the size ratio..
The andromeda galaxy is not that large in our night sky to the naked eye. This is fake
This page needs to change its name to AI as fuck
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Not a real photo
[Not everything is AI, guys. ](https://www.instagram.com/p/DRs-vfak7kH/?igsh=MWZ4dHQ0bHluM2k4cw==)
Can an astronomer explain to me, how is it that we can see andromeda so clearly? It looks like a whole in space, can you see it “move” if you were to record it?
Seems like everyone here is forgetting about focal length.
I’d expect reflected light off the snow to saturate an exposure way before andromeda. Unless this is a bunch of separate photos stitched together.
https://preview.redd.it/zaali8ugp8lg1.jpeg?width=1439&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e7b19e4f1d534ce570af80a0a4b9b60c0f0def7
beautiful shot. But just to keep expectations realistic andromeda doesnt actually look like its about to invade the mountain still an incredible composite though
Who summoned Astel?
Even if it’s real, it’s a composite. In a Bortle 1 or 2 skies, you can see Andromeda fairly easily with a naked eye but no way you’ll have crystal clear mountain range with Andromeda this big both in focus let alone the size ratio as mentioned would be way off you won’t even see the mountain in the foreground to begin with.
I took this when I first started doing Astrophotography with Canon 6D MKI with 17mm lens in Lincoln NH. You can see Andromeda above the tree on the right. Perseids meteor I believe streaking across. I didn’t know at the time I had Andromeda was in frame.
https://preview.redd.it/gi5bv2l9p8lg1.jpeg?width=853&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e92efc26625a8ecce998db296ec3f2ea681bdf7b
when you realize the only thing stopping you from seeing it with your bare eyes, tho its furher away than any human could travel in multiple lifespans is your theoretical time looking at the sky…
thats when you stop looking up shit on reddit, and go out, buy groceries, cook awesome food and enjoy some oldschool runescape, because everything you do in life is fucking irrelevant in the grand scheme of atoms 🤣
perspective and focal length totally distort size comparison
Yes, the Andromeda Galaxy can be seen with the unaided eye under the right conditions,
appearing as **a faint smudge** of light in the night sky.
Wow
They say we’ll collide with it in like a billion years, but that MF is getting big, it looks to me like we have bout 6 months
So we got the galaxy name but what is the mountains name?
It’s so beautiful….
I like to imagine weird alien taking pictures like this but of the milky-way.
What is the cloud-like object between the peak and Andromeda ? I suppose it is not the Magellan clouds…
Bullshit.
Have y’all seen Andromeda in the sky before? It’s… not that big. lmao
EDIT: apparently it IS that big, goddamn. I guess I must’ve been looking at the wrong thing lol. Had no idea it was that close.
Either way it’s a neat composition of photos layered on top of each other, very cool.
Is a heavily edited picture.
One can say it’s technically true, since it uses legit photography techniques to get to this.
But it’s totally impossible to view a scene like this with the naked eye.
Oh lawd, she’s coming.
It’s not AI, just heavily edited
This is technically real but to get that amount of light you need at least an hour of exposures and th earth would have moved too much to get the mountain in view for more than the first few exposures. This person probably took one photo of andromeda over the mountain where the galaxy was extremely dim and extremely far away and then overlaid their previously stacked photo to get the effect. For reference here is my photo I took last year. 1.5 hours of exposures. The color is off but you get the gist.
https://preview.redd.it/wnr5qcmls8lg1.jpeg?width=4968&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8fb3241364a1b89fa4210469b3501f12c8f42ba2
“From the galaxy of Andromeda, I puzzle 🥷’s like crop circles and other unexplained phenomena.”
Nothing pains me more than clicking on these comment sections and proceeding to read countless people who have no fucking clue about astrophotography act confidently wrong like they have authority over the subject when they have *no clue what they are talking about*.
“It’s coming right at us!”
Watching Bugonia rn
https://i.redd.it/gr4nnmmju8lg1.gif
Is there a higher resolution version?
“Astrophotographer creates a fake image”
Bullshit
Fake as fuck, cant believe how stupid people here are.
The andromeda galaxy is over 100 miles away.
Well, we’ll get a much closer view in about 10 billion years when the two eventually collide!
I’ll be very disappointed if there’s no puff puff…
The photo is altered. Andromeda is that close to Earth.